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7 Big Ways Cruising Will Change. My Predictions
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Jan 28, 2025
How will cruising and cruise ships change? Cruising will not return to "business as usual" and be the same after the events of 2020. When the cruise shutdown finally ends the cruise lines, the way they operate, the way we cruise and the facilities and on-board experience will be different to the way it was. I share my thoughts on the 7 biggest ways that cruising will change moving forwards. What do you think of these 7 things? Any others you see happening? 1: What should you do with bookings: https://youtu.be/Bp4xA21bsY4 2: Cancellations and refunds: https://youtu.be/BEadOjDRwAA 3: Cruise Lines Finances and refunds: https://youtu.be/E5Uco5H3CYU 4: When Cruising Will Really Start Up: https://youtu.be/3A4ZxXa-l8o 5: How cruising will change: : https://youtu.be/bamjq0pT8FU 6: Will people cruise again: https://youtu.be/mF_fKOmAmxg SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY: Buying my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore Booking your next cruise with CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://bit.ly/TFTBookCruise Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 77 cruises at time of making this video. Follow Tips For Travellers on: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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what are the seven ways that cruising
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will change forever moving forwards
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I'm Gary Bembridge this is another of my
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cruising tips of Travis I want to share
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with you the seven ways seven things I
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think they're going to happen to
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cruising moving forwards as a result of
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the shutdown the whole build up to the
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shutdown the pandemic the way that
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people are going to travel and also what
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I think is going to be essential to be
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put in place to make cruising safe and
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acceptable for people to go and head out
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on cruising vacations again so let's
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take a look at those starting with this
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one
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one of the biggest changes that happen
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to the way that we behave in the way we
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think about life through this whole
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process is that terms social distancing
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the idea of being crammed together close
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to people has become something that has
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become quite dangerous but also I think
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moving forwards people are going to be
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looking actually at having more personal
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space I think one of the consequences of
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that is we're gonna see that cruise
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lines have less people on their ships
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and I think there's a couple of signs
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already that that's starting to happen
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one of the big trends in cruising has
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been of course to bigger and bigger
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ships or to cram more and more people
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onto the ships because the economic
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model was get people on the ship and get
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them then once they're on board to spend
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a lot of money drinks excursions Wi-Fi
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especially dining all those kind of
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activities and things however I think
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people are gonna want more space and as
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we saw in this whole build-up and some
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of the outbreaks that happen on cruise
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ships is people being really close
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together in small cabins interacting a
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lot really in close quarters was a big
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issue I think we're going to see cruise
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lines cruising with less people on board
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I think we're gonna see new ships more
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and more space allocated per passenger
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and even on existing ships I think we
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will see cruise is actually not sailing
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full is interesting in the build-up to
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the shutdown I was actually a cruise
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just as a shutdown happened and because
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also people were nervous as traveling
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but there was definitely less people on
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the ship you had much more sense of
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space things were just crammed and is
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busy you could actually create more
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space when you ate when you enter the
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theater when you went out on excursions
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and I think that's gonna become the norm
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it's very interesting I've seen a couple
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of things happening online where I've
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noticed some cruise lines if future
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cruisers are actually taken some well
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selling cruises off and I think there's
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been lots of indications that
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cruise lines will have less people on
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board of course in consequences for that
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is over the longer term we may see that
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fares go up because because they need to
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balance some of those economics I don't
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think that's going to happen in the
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short term I think fares will stay low
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for a while as they try to attract
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people back into cruising but definitely
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I think we will see less people or
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another way of putting it is we will see
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more space on average per passenger
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increasing movement forwards either
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because cruise lines won't fill ships to
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100% or in fact over a hundred percent
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capacity and then go time we'll see some
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adjustments to the way that ships are
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built the second thing I think we're
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gonna see is linked very much to that
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and they're zooming very very strong
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indications and that's actually not
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cramming venues completely full one of
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the most interesting documents that came
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out just as I was researching and
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getting ready to record this is from
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Ghent increasing are getting is a really
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big cruise operator there and Crystal
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Cruises
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but they also in Star Cruises and dream
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cruises in Asia and they put out a
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strategy for how they're planning to
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move things forward as cruising starts
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and what they're talking about is
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dramatically reducing the amount of
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people they led into venues so for
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example in the theatres they're talking
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a--probably only filling the theater to
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half capacity moving forwards to give
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more people that opportunity to space
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out the implications that of course what
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that could mean it could mean that
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perhaps that you'll have less shows in
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the theater so the shows will repeat
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more often so that actually have less
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people in the theater and maybe overtime
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theaters or redesigned but I think it
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can be very interesting the way that
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they actually limit the amount of people
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go into venues so people have more space
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and I do think this can become more of a
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social norm the expectation of space the
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third thing I think we're going to see
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certainly in the first year or so of
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cruising is ships are going to be very
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much more focused on staying close to
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home and building up even more so their
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home ports what we saw over the last
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couple of years in cruising is there was
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a real drive to find new itineraries new
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places to cruise to and the cruise lines
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were putting their ships all around the
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world what we saw in the run-up to the
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shutdown is that became a real challenge
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because ships were far away from their
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home ports far away from where they had
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cloud where they had hit offices and we
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saw increasingly as things developed
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that international ports were not
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willing to let cruise ship
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coming in and particularly a lot of
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those ports weren't big cruising centers
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they weren't used to having lots of
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cruise ships in so I think what we're
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going to see is actually the cruise
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lines has become much more focused on
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staying closer to home so that's gonna
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mean people focus very heavily on the
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Caribbean people focusing very heavily
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on the Mediterranean and probably I
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guess people focusing very heavily on
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Alaska all really close to where their
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head offices are and they have lots of
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influence so I don't think we're going
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to see is the development of more and
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more home ports in those areas and
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building strong relationships with the
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ports what we saw so ships had to sell
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back to Florida
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so either Miami or to Fort Lauderdale
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because that's the only place eventually
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they could find someone willing to let
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them in because cruising was so integral
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and part of that whole ecosystem and the
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state and it was just such a fundamental
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part of what that state is so I think
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that's what we're gonna see is over the
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next year or two years it's actually
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cruise lines retreating much more into
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where they have influence where they're
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strong and probably also building up
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much more of a process so a process if
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there are outbreaks how does this ship
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come in how can they get passengers off
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quickly because one of the things we saw
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of course is if you do have an outbreak
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or you have issues on a ship it's
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totally what crew signs that has got
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people off and through this whole
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outbreak people were being kept on the
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ships so I think another reason for
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sticking close to home ports sticking
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close to regions is there are more like
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to be able to build up infrastructure
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and relationships so I think that's
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gonna be a really really big trend I
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think there's going to be a move away
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from spending their ships all around all
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over the place and looking for new
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itineraries the fourth thing I think is
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going to happen is another very
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interesting one one of the things we saw
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is that as ports closed and they had
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less cruise passengers of course there
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was a realization that actually some of
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these places are very overrun there was
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already a lot of discussion around over
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tourism and the fact that cruise ships
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were coming to some of these places
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whether it's Venice whether it's
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Santorini and other ports like that
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where there was just a sense of it was
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just too many people and too crowded as
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the waves of tourism and cruise ships
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aren't coming I think a lot of these
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destinations are going to rethink their
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whole approach to tourism partly because
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they may be concerned about cruise ships
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coming in and bringing in disease or
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infections or whatever
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but also bringing those ways and ways
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people so I think we're gonna see more
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and more ports actually closing to
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cruise ships because they realized
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actually they don't want to over tourism
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in their port that'll use it as an
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opportunity so I think we're gonna see
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fewer destinations willing to take
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cruise ships so it's the cruise ships
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which is coming back to on the other
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points I made are gonna focus much more
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on the traditional areas and perhaps
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trying to identify new attorneys or new
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ways of exploring those but I think we
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are going to see a real consolidation
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and a reduction actually of the number
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of places that cruisers go to partly
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because they want to stay close to home
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but also I think ports are increasingly
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gonna become less interested in having
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mass tourism and of course cruising
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really creates mass tourism without a
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shadow of a doubt the way that we embark
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ships with your crew or passengers is
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going to change out will go the
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self-declaration questionnaire you know
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before you borders ship you've basically
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with you had vomiting diarrhea you'd
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visited certain places that might have
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had some issues in and there was no
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incentive for people not to line there
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because they'd be worried they'd either
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be denied boarding or they'd be
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restricted to their cabin we're going to
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see a much more invasive if that's the
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right word way of embarking passengers
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of crew are going to be screened before
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they get on a ship what that takes I
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think will evolve certainly in the
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build-up to the shutdown temperature
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checks are being taken however
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temperature is again a relatively blunt
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instrument because people sitting with
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the virus only have a temperature five
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or more days after they've been infected
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so they are so infectious and still can
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spread that it's before the symptoms
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show up so actually temperature checks
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alone is probably not going to be enough
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you may have to bring medical
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certificates showing you've been
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vaccinated or there may be actual
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testing before you're likely to board I
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think that's really gonna be a really
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big change to the way we embark that
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means the whole invocation process is
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going to become much longer you may have
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to find a disembarkation may become much
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more complex with screening in the port
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before you actually disembark it's very
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interesting what I've seen recently
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although it's still a short-term measure
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is Hong Kong Airport introducing a
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process where everyone arriving on
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international flight has to go and be
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tested and they're then sent to wait for
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the results of the test and depending on
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the results of
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that testing depends on what happens to
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them now they have to go into specific
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quarantine eing or they have to go to
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specific medical center so already we're
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starting to see some indications that
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actually screening arriving is going to
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be as important as embarking so without
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a shadow of a doubt there is going to be
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a much more complex screening process
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and physical and probably more invasive
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checking before you can board a cruise
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ship that's going to definitely change
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the other thing that's going to change
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is the way that seniors or more elderly
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people go cruising and certainly 70-plus
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that's going to be a massive challenge
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for some cruise lines that have a very
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strong and many of their passengers are
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the kind of seniors and older passengers
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in the run-up to that shutdown there was
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a strong advice not to go cruising and
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all the cruise lines introduced the fact
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that you had to have some sort of
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certification from your doctor saying
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that it was okay or it was suitable for
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you to go traveling and I think that
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sort of certification and the
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requirements for more elderly people to
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go cruising is it going to become a big
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issue the moment it's 70 plus whether
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that even reduces it down so I'm in my
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early 60s and I won't be surprised if
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it's going to be even more restrictions
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as I sought aboard not just people 70
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plus so definitely cruising for seniors
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is going to change and could require
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much more documentation and physical
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checks with your doctor before you can
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go cruising for cruise lines that
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becomes a massive challenges they're
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gonna have to find a way of finding new
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audiences having less cruises or finding
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a way of helping and assisting those
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people in that age group cruise on their
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cruise lines the next thing that I think
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is really going to change and it's gonna
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be some fundamentally big changes here
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is the design of cruise ships but
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particularly the onboard services and
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there's four things that I'd like to
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specifically talk about first of all I
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think we're going to see in real change
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in medical centers medical centers on
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cruise ships are currently designed to
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basically manage a situation and if
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anyone is serious treatment that is to
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get them off the ship as quickly as
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possible what we learned in the shutdown
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once those medical centers don't have
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the facilities isolate people they don't
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have the facilities with things like
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ventilators all that kind of more calm
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equipment I think we will see medical
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centers becoming much larger more
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complex and building in sort of
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isolation spaces and actually shifting a
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little bit more to be able to deal with
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big issues and bigger medical issues on
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board I think that's definitely going to
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happen
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there'll be more medical staff on board
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and they will have to have much more
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capability the second thing I think
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we're going to see your second thing I'd
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like to talk about is self service I
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think self service and the way that
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buffets have worked will pretty much
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disappear in the way they operated and
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those self-service or buffet areas will
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become more served you see that a lot if
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there's a norovirus issue on board and
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certainly what I saw when I was on the
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ship in the run-up to the shutdown is
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the self service was really locked down
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everything was served by staff they had
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gloves they had masks and you literally
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could not touch I think salt and pepper
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dishes were removed anything that would
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have multiple people touching even self
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service coffee and tea was then taken
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over and served to you in above I think
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buffets and the way that they work will
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fundamentally change they will be become
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served in formal dining venues third
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area that I think is gonna see a lot of
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challenge and change is the whole area
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air conditioning there was lots of
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discussion around what role air
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conditioning and the way that air
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conditioning systems work may or may not
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have spread this airborne virus and I'm
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not there's any specific data on that
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but one thing I've noticed is being more
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and more talk by cruise lines about
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changing the air conditioning systems
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over example referring to that of
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getting what they said is all their
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ships moving forward or change their
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conditioning system to only bring in
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fresh air from the outside that we know
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recycled air of course that's going to
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be a challenge moving forward on land as
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well for ventilation and air
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conditioning systems but I think the
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whole air conditioning system and the
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way that works in the way that air is
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moved around the cruise ship moving
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forward certainly will become something
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that gets changed the fourth area of
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course is the whole protocols and way
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things are cleaned on board in order has
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been on the ship during a norovirus
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outbreak or Sydney as I saw in the
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run-up to the shutdown is the way that
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the whole cleaning process changed with
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completely high high high levels of
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cleaning so things like the railings the
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stairwells lift buttons anything
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multiple times were being wiped down
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every hour or two hours rooms being
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cleaned even more there's much more deep
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cleaning of rooms that whole process is
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going to really change and much more
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enforcement of the hand-washing and not
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just the gel their actual hand-washing
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so we probably gonna see more
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hand-washing stations appearing on ships
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there's going to be many many changes
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coming to cruising and the way that we
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cruise in the structure of cruising
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these are the seven areas of seven
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things that I think are fundamentally
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going to change the way that we cruise
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moving forwards I have many more videos
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of cruising advice tips thoughts about
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the future of cruising so why don't you
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watch another one of those right now
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